Where creativity & chaos collide
The humour and creativity of Canadian Author Noah JD Chinn
Canadian author, amateur adventurer, and moderately amusing fellow Noah JD Chinn is pleased to announce the launch of his first novel. Bleeding Heart Yard was just released by Mundania Press, and is now available through Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, Barnes & Noble, and more. His second novel, Trooper #4, is currently slated for a June release, assuming he does not fall asleep at the keyboard again.
As a published cartoonist and writer, several of Noah’s articles have appeared in distinguished publications, including Canada’s Globe & Mail. His short fiction also appeared in the UK magazine Fiction, which closed immediately afterwards and was in no way his fault. Probably.
He’s the creator of Fuzzy Knights, a comic that ran for five years at Kenzer & Company, publishers of Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. It featured stuffed toys playing role-playing games, yet incorporated elements of myth about the nature of storytelling into its arc. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, had been a Fuzzy Knights fan, and graciously wrote a ringing endorsement for the trade paperback release that was very nearly justified. Noah later turned his attention to writing novels.
Though he spends entirely too much time hunched in front of a keyboard, Noah does enjoy having an adventure now and then. He’s biked across several countries and even climbs the odd mountain. He recommends the view from Mt. Fuji—if you have a pair of warm gloves and an oxygen tank.
Noah currently lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and muse Gillian. He has yet to be accused of literature, but looks forward to the possibility someday.
As an honest-to-goodness nerd, Noah enjoys video games, photography, role-playing and exploring. This website was created to offer a little insight into the man himself—and shamelessly peddle his wares. Welcome!
Noah Chinn was born in Oshawa, Ontario, and has never really forgiven it for that. After high school he fled his hometown in favour of the freezing winters of Ottawa. Three years later it dawned on him that higher education and frostbite did not have to go hand in hand, and finished his degree in Toronto.
Shortly after university he moved to Vancouver, where he met his future wife, Gillian. He then spent the summer bicycling across Canada, which she thankfully didn’t misinterpret as him trying to get as far away from her as possible. They moved to Japan for three years, where he taught English yet managed not to learn a word of Japanese.
It was during this time that he had a successful cartoon series called Fuzzy Knights, which centered on the exploits of toy animals playing Dungeons and Dragons, and an evil hamster trying to destroy them. Some have called this a cry for help.
He later moved to England with dreams of making it big as a writer – because with a BA in English Lit it was either that or serving fries at a burger shack. Noah’s first serious attempt at a novel, The Professional Tourist, was set in a Tokyo language school. Unstable students (and teachers), biker gangs, and the homeless underworld of the Blue Village all featured in this slightly askew romantic comedy.
The book landed him an agent, but not a publisher. Unfortunately, in the way aspiring actors move to Hollywood and end up as busboys, the closest he came to literary success in England was working at several bookstores – each of which mysteriously closed down after his stay.
After writing several more manuscripts and moving back to Canada, he found more success in the North American market. He and his wife now live in Vancouver.
He now wears a hat.
Whoever said the course of true love doesn’t run smoothly must have been talking about Peter.
Being cursed by an honest to goodness witch is bad enough, but what are you supposed to do when you’re not quite sure what the curse is–or when it’s going to go off?
Of course, the sun has to shine on everyone–even someone whose existence is shrouded in myth and urban legend. Peter has discovered the love of his life. And if he can save her from a monster ravaging the streets of London and stay alive himself–his best friend just might have enough time to figure out a cure for Peter’s embarrassing little problem.
No boy meets girl story has ever been this tricky or chaotic. Full of supernatural fun–it’s time for a damned romance!
Evolution of a Cover Prologue and Chapters 1&2 Official Book Blurb The Real Bleeding Heart Yard Review of BHY in KODT! Now Available!
Trooper #4 is a story about the end of the world – but not as we know it. A woman wakes up in a motel on the outskirts of a remote Oregon city with no memory who she is and a gun at her bedside. As she explores it seems that civilization has come to an end.
That’s bad.
But it might also be the most normal thing that happens to her all week.
Slotted For A June Release
Let me be clear: I’m no Edmund Hillary. I call myself an adventurer, but I’m an amateur at best. I’ve never broken a record and probably never will. I haven’t pushed my body to the breaking point, stared death in the face, or done anything National Geographic will be knocking on my door about any time soon. What I’ve done is this:
I’ve gone out and had fun.
It’s always been my philosophy that you can’t sit and wait for something interesting or exciting to happen to you. Sure it happens sometimes, but for the most part you have to go out and make it happen. I’ll never be Indiana Jones, but I can go out an indulge that part of me that wants to carry a whip.
While I was in high school I had for the longest time planned on some kind of bike adventure, possibly riding north up to James Bay. That trip never happened, but by the time I started University I found myself in a position to go on a different trip. Since then I’ve been on a few more, some longer and more epic than others, but all well worth my time.
Most of these were the pre-blog days, where I either wrote my thoughts down on paper or wrote on primitive websites with the kind of basic HTML code I could understand. I’ll do my best to keep the content intact and as it was. You’ll probably see my writing style change over the years.
2000 – Cross Canada (under construction, check for updates)
2007 – Northern Europe – London to Hamburg
2012 – Vancouver to Whitehorse???
